Garment.



IPATENTEDIJUNE 2, 1908.

S. GREENES.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, 1908.

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SAMUEL GREENES, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

GARMENT.

Application filed January 29, 1908.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GREENEs, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Garment, of which the follow ingis a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to garments, my more particular purpose being toproduce a garment provided with openings so secured by fastenings as torender the size of the garment, to some extent, adjustable at will, andso arranged that the garment is reversible, presenting to the eye aconstructional difference in appearance when viewed upon one of itssides, as com ared with the view presented from the ot er side.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the garment upon the person, andso worn that the lacing cords are visible and may be manipulated fromthe outside of the garment for the purpose of increasing or decreasingthe size of the garment; Fig. 2 is a fragmen- 'tary elevation showingthe back of the garment, and also showing the garment so turned that thelacing cords may be seen from the outside; Fig. 3 is an enlargedfragmentary plan of a portion of the garment, showing the same as foldedso as to form an opening covered by a plait, and further showing thelacing cord for adjusting the size of the opening; Fig. 4 is adiagrammatic section through the upper portion of the garment, showinghow the lacing cords are distributed in order to enable the operator tovary, within limits, the size of the garment, this view further showinghow the plaits are concealed inside the garment when it is desired toshow the cords outside of the same; and Fig. 5 is an enlargedfragmentary section through one of the plaits and the embroidered lacingholes disposed adjacent to opposite edges of the plait.

The body of the garment is shown at 6, the neck portion at 7, a hood at8, this hood being mounted upon the upper portion of the garment for thepurpose of partially encompassing the wearers head, and at 9 is a capeSpecification of Letters Patent.

, of the garment.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Serial No. 413,183.

connected permanently with the body portion. At 10 are plaits made byfolding the body portion back upon itself, as indicated in Fig. 5, thefolds 11 being sewed and pro vided with worked holes 18 for receiving alacing cord 12, as will be understood from Figs. 3 and 5. The folds 11are thus separated by an opening 6 and by loosening or tightening thecords 12 the folds 11 may be allowed to move apart or be drawn towardeach other, as the case may be. This renders the garment adjustablewithin wide limits.

The neck portion 7 is not changed, and the bottom portion, because ithangs loosely, can readily accommodate itself to persons of differentsizes, but the upper portion of the garment, adjacent to the wearersshoulders, may be extended or contracted at will by simply changing thetightness of the cords 12.

As there are four different openings 6, the effects of adjusting thegarment are dis tributed equally upon four different portions That is tosay, the garment, as a whole, may be adjusted Within wide limits, yet noparticular opening 6 need be changed greatly in size, for the reasonthat there are several such openings and the spacing may be renderedequal in all of them, At '14 isa plait in the back of the garment.

This garment is reversible. When worn 'as indicated in Fig. 1, the cords12, being upon the outside, are visible. If, however, the garment beturned, the plaits 1.0, being upon the outside, conceal the cords 12.This gives the garment a different appearance according as one side orthe other may be worn outwardly.

The appearance of the plaits 10 presents such a marked contrast to theappearance of the cords 12 laced through the worked holes 13, that thegarment, for many purposes, serves practically as two distinct garments.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

In a garment, the combination of a body portion folded upon itself so asto form a number of plaits, said plaits being spaced substantiallyequidistant, said garment being provided, adjacent to each of saidplaits, with a plurality of holes disposed upon opposite sides of theplait, and a lacing member In testimony whereof I have signed mythreaded through said holes for the purpose name to this specificationin the presence of of contracting and enlarging said garment at tWosubscribing Witnesses.

the plaits, said garment being reversible so SAMUEL GREENES. 5 that whenWorn in one position said lacing Witnesses:

member is visible,- and When Worn in another JANE S. B. HARRIS,

position said lacing member is concealed. SALLIE B. FLEMING

